ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
updated 7/9/10
HELPFUL
GENERAL INFORMATION ON ALL THE RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
Timelines
| Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
River
Valley Empires: 3200 BC- AD 400 - just one page from the fantastic WebChron
site.
ANCIENT MAPS - Ancient
World
Ancient
Trade Routes
Trade
Routes between Europe and Asia during Antiquity
Trade between
the Romans and the Empires of Asia
SILK ROAD CHRONOLOGY
- The silkroad foundation
- Lost Cities
of the Silk Road
The History of
Spices - Spice
FAQs - Spice Encyclopedia
THE
TIGRIS & EUPHRATES - THE FERTILE CRESCENT & THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST
From Ancient Palestine to Persia & Everything In-Between
Mesopotamia,
8000–2000 B.C. | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
West
Asia | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Middle
East Chronology
Timeline at The Ancient
Mediterranean
CHART:
Central Events in the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamian
Civilization: 7000-500 BC
Iraq History
Timeline 5000BC-2002AD
MAPS: Fertile Cresent, 9000 to
4500 BCE - Ancient
Mesopotamia, to 2500 BCE - Mesopotamia:
Empire of Sargon
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Middle
East: The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia - The British Museum
- Menu
BBC
- Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia: This
History, Our History
Ancient
Western Asia and the Civilization of Mesopotamia
Ancient
Mesopotamia and Near East - All Empires
CyberMuseum:
Mesopotamia(Sumer, Babylon, Assyria)
The Mesopotamian
Gallery
Mesopotamia -
Crystalinks - Mesopotamia
- Mesopotamia
Cuneiform Writing
@ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - Evolution
of Cuneiform Characters - Proverbs
in Sumerian Cuneiform
Write Like a
Babylonian
Mesopotamian
Mathematics - Cuneiform
numbers - cuneiform
calculator
Sumer - Crystalinks -
The Sumerians - Sargon
and the Vanishing Sumerians
Hammurabi's Babylon
The Avalon
Project : The Code of Hammurabi - 1760
BC - Hammurabi's Code of Laws - Collection
of Mesopotamian Laws, c. 2250 - 550 BC
WOMEN
IN BABYLONIA UNDER THE HAMMURABI LAW CODE
The Seven Wonders - Hanging
Gardens of Babylon - The
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Akkadians,
Egyptians and the Hebrews
Israel, Judah, Assyrians,
Chaldeans, Persians, and Judaism, to the 400s BCE
ASSYRIA ONLINE! - The
Assyrian Kings List
Kings of Egyptian New
Kingdom, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittites, etc.
Assyrian, Babylonian,
and Persian Empires by Sanderson Beck
MAP: Israel and Judah to
733 BCE
MAP: The Major
Cities and Regions of Ancient Israel
The Hebrews - The
Torah - From Abraham to David
- 1300
BC: The Ten Commandments - For much more, visit the section on Early Judaism
& Christianity on my Ancient
Rome page.
Collapse:
Mesopotamia
Diffusions from
Mesopotamia to Egypt
Web Site Links Related to
Mesopotamia or Language
Sumerian literature: ETCSL:
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Sumerian
Mythology FAQ - Sumerian
Mythology - Sumerian
Gods and Goddesses - Canaanite/Ugaritic
Mythology FAQ - Hittite/Hurrian
Mythology
Gilgamesh Summary
- SOME POSSIBLE
THEMES OF GILGAMESH - GILGAMESH:
The primordial human story - A
comparative study of the flood accounts in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis - COMPARISON
OF BABYLONIAN AND NOAHIC FLOOD STORIES
A possible source
of the Noah's Flood story
The
Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
Gods, Goddesses,
Demons and Monsters
Islamic
medicine
The History of Plumbing
(Babylonia) - The History of
Plumbing - Jerusalem
Music of the Ancient Near East
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near
Eastern Archives
Kings of Egyptian New
Kingdom, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittites, etc.
Phoenician Encyclopedia - Phoenicians
- Phoenicians @
National Geographic Magazine - Phoenicians
overview
Mr. Dowling's
Phoenicians and Carthage Page
Phoenicia, Phoenician Ships,
Navigation and Commerce - Ancient
Phoenician Ships, Boats and Sea Trade - The
Phoenician Ship Expedition - Ancient
Phoenician Ships (Bible History Online)
Table of the Phoenician
Alphabet - Phoenician Alphabet
- Phoenician alphabet
and language - Evolution of
Picture Writing - Sinaitic
to Phoenician - Evolution
of Phoenician Characters
Ancient Persia - Persian
Empire - Persia
Iran:
History of Iran: Periods & Events
History
of Iran: The Early Years of Sassanid Empire and Religious Turmoil
History
of Iran: Parthian Empire
THE
IRANIAN: History, early religions, "History of the Persian Empire"
PERSEPOLIS
Ancient Scripts:
Old Persian
For the history of Islam, visit the sections on the Middle East on my Non-Western
& Religions pages.
THE
NILE RIVER - EGYPT, NUBIA, KUSH
Civilization
Appears Along the Nile BCE - Diffusions
from Mesopotamia to Egypt
Visit my Egypt page.
THE
INDUS RIVER VALLEY
India
Chronology
South
Asia | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Harappan
Civilization: ca. 3000-1500 BC
Aryan
Migrations: 1500-1200 BC
The Lost Civilization of
Mohenjo-daro and Harappa
Aryan Invasions into
the Indus Valley
Harappa: The Indus Valley
and the Raj in India and Pakistan
Ancient Indus Valley
Civilization: Harappa, Mohenjo-daro
Indus Valley
Indus
Civilization
Ancient India - The
British Museum
BBC -
History: Ancient India
Ancient India -
History for Kids
MrDonn.org - Ancient India
Ancient India
EAWC: Ancient India
More
Ancient India
The Indus River
Valley Civilization: Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
Manas:
History and Politics, Indus Valley
MrDonn.org - Ancient India -
Indus Valley Civilization
India, Empire and Chaos,
1000 BCE to 500 CE
200
BC - Laws of Manu
Philosophy in India:
Upanishad Writers; Buddhism
The
Buddha: c. 563-483 BC - The Buddha |
PBS - Game | The Buddha | PBS
Ancient Indus
Valley Script: Contents
Intro/Rise and fall of
the Indus Civilization
Lesson
Plan (World History) for teaching about the Indus Valley Civilization
For more, please visit the section on INDIA on my Non-Western
Cultures page.
THE
YELLOW RIVER - CHINA
Ancient
China - The British Museum
China
| Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Ancient China -
History for Kids!
Kids Konnect -
Ancient China
Ancient China
China
EAWC: Ancient China
Ancient China for Kids -
Main Index
Ancient China by
History Link 101
Empire and the Ancient
Chinese
The Shang and Zhou Dynasties
Philosophy in China:
Confucious, Taoists and Others
SILK ROAD
CHRONOLOGYs - Lost
Cities of the Silk Road - The
silkroad foundation
Chinese
Medicine
Terracotta
Warriors - WHTour
: Terracotta : Army
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